Friedrich-Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach

Friedrich-Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach (16 April 1894-3 April 1989) was a General der Gebirgstruppe of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Kirchensittenbach was born in Oberallgau, Bavaria, German Empire on 16 April 1894, and he served as a deputy brigade commander in the Imperial German Army during World War I. In May 1919, he joined the Freikorps during the German Revolution, and he rose to the rank of captain in the Reichswehr in 1926. In 1934, he was promoted to Major in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, and he became commander of a mountain regiment in May 1940. He commanded a regiment of the German 6th Mountain Division during the Balkans campaign of early 1941, and he later fought on the Eastern Front. In October 1944, he took command of the L Armeekorps in the Courland Pocket, and he was forced to surrender to the Red Army in 1945. He was held in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp until 1955, and he returned to West Germany, dying in Munich in 1989.